Empathy Contact List does not un-hide

Bug #1183489 reported by PJSingh5000
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu)
Confirmed
Undecided
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Bug Description

If Empathy is started in hidden mode (using the -h option) then you can not show the Empathy contacts list window.

Steps to reproduce:
1. Make sure Empathy is not running. If it is running quit it, or kill it from the system monitor.
2. In a terminal, start empathy using the "start hidden option, as follows:
    $ empathy -h
3. Notice that empathy is now running in system moitor.
4. From the messaging menu indicator applet, select Empathy.
5. The Empathy Contact List window does *not* appear, as expected.
6. Now try to start Empathy from the Unity Dash.
7. Again, the Empathy Contact List window does not appear, as expected.
8. Notice that empathy is still running in the background in system moitor.

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

Changed in telepathy-gabble (Ubuntu):
status: New → Confirmed
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